Section 16 Potential Workers? Compensation Preemption Issue

• Library: Employer-Employee Law 2008

In Massey v. Victor L. Phillips, Co., 827 F. Supp. 597, 597 (W.D. Mo. 1993), an employee brought an invasion of privacy claim against her former employer, alleging that supervisors utilized a peephole to spy on her in the women’s restroom. The employer asserted that the claim was preempted by workers’ compensation exclusivity. Massey, 827 F. Supp. at 597. The court held that Missouri’s Labor and Industrial Relations Commission had exclusive jurisdiction to determine whether the...